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Bracken,
I’m checking out the link today.
Pray with all the means that God gives you, including your conversation with Him (mental prayer), Jesus’s own prayer to His Father, prayers of the saints, even with the work God places in your hands each hour.
Don’t worry about “feelings” (e.g., feelings about whether/not you are close to God). Focus on pleasing God (His feelings), not your emotions or feelings, or you.
A priest once told me that “Feelings are very good, because God gave them to us. But feelings are like dogs, they need an owner; otherwise they can make messes wherever they go”. They need to be directed by our will.
Saying a prayer with struggling sincerity and intentionality, especially when we’re tired and “not feeling it”, brings graces and pleases God, because you’re struggling to be near Him, even though you may not “feel it”.
Wouldn’t a loving father smile on a child persevering through tiredness and absence of “good feelings” in order to make a gift for him, or others?
I’m checking out the link today.
Pray with all the means that God gives you, including your conversation with Him (mental prayer), Jesus’s own prayer to His Father, prayers of the saints, even with the work God places in your hands each hour.
Don’t worry about “feelings” (e.g., feelings about whether/not you are close to God). Focus on pleasing God (His feelings), not your emotions or feelings, or you.
A priest once told me that “Feelings are very good, because God gave them to us. But feelings are like dogs, they need an owner; otherwise they can make messes wherever they go”. They need to be directed by our will.
Saying a prayer with struggling sincerity and intentionality, especially when we’re tired and “not feeling it”, brings graces and pleases God, because you’re struggling to be near Him, even though you may not “feel it”.
Wouldn’t a loving father smile on a child persevering through tiredness and absence of “good feelings” in order to make a gift for him, or others?